Data Business Partner

Data Business Partner

Application closing date: 08/09/2026 at 23:59

Interviews will take place: Week commencing 28/09/2026

This is a Fixed Term Contract, end date: 30/09/2027

A bit about the role...

Working in the Data Culture and Engagement team with Emma Tilley and Alycia Desai, the Data Business Partner will play an important role in helping colleagues across Homes England make better use of data to inform decisions and improve outcomes. You'll join a collaborative and ambitious team focused on helping colleagues realise greater value from data through improved data literacy, effective engagement, stronger governance and a culture where data is trusted, understood and used with confidence. 

Alycia is passionate about helping colleagues succeed with data. She believes that creating a strong data culture starts with understanding people's needs and communicating in ways that are clear, engaging and meaningful. Through impactful communications, practical support and strong partnerships, she is committed to setting colleagues up for success, helping them build confidence in data and enabling them to make better-informed decisions that deliver positive outcomes.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with colleagues across Homes England, supporting and delivering communications, engagement activities and campaigns that encourage wider adoption of data tools, products, standards and services. You'll help shape how data is communicated across the organisation, translating strategic priorities into clear, engaging messages that help colleagues understand how data can support better decision-making and improved outcomes. 

You'll play a key role in developing and maintaining the Data Hub, ensuring colleagues can easily access helpful guidance, resources, learning materials and information about data-related initiatives. You'll also support engagement through Viva Engage and other communication channels, helping create an active and supportive data community where colleagues can learn from one another, share good practice and celebrate success. 

Working closely with business areas and data specialists, you'll help gather feedback, identify barriers to adoption and support continuous improvement activities that make it easier for colleagues to access, understand and use data effectively. You'll build relationships across the organisation, acting as a key contact for data culture and engagement activity while promoting good practices around data quality, governance, ownership and responsible data use. 

You'll also contribute to events, campaigns, case studies and success stories that demonstrate the impact of data across Homes England, helping colleagues understand not just the data itself, but the actions, decisions and outcomes that trusted data can enable. 

This role provides an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys working with people, building relationships, creating engaging communications and helping colleagues develop confidence in using data in their day-to-day work.

A bit about you…

You'll be an organised and enthusiastic individual who enjoys working with a variety of stakeholders and helping people solve problems. You'll be naturally curious, keen to understand business challenges and motivated by helping colleagues make better use of data.

You'll be a strong communicator, able to take complex or technical information and translate it into clear, engaging and accessible messages for different audiences. Whether creating content, supporting campaigns, facilitating discussions or producing communications materials, you'll be able to communicate with confidence and credibility. 

You'll have a flair for communications and engagement, with experience creating content, running campaigns, supporting events or building communities and networks. You'll enjoy finding creative ways to engage colleagues, sharing success stories and making complex topics accessible, relevant and interesting for a wide range of audiences. Experience using platforms such as SharePoint, Viva Engage or similar collaboration and communication tools would be beneficial. 

You'll understand how data can support better decisions, improve performance and help organisations achieve their objectives. You'll also appreciate the importance of governance, quality and responsible data use, helping colleagues understand these principles in a practical and proportionate way. 

You'll enjoy building relationships, gathering feedback and identifying opportunities for improvement. You'll be comfortable working collaboratively with colleagues from across the organisation and contributing to initiatives that strengthen data adoption, capability and culture. 

Most importantly, you'll be passionate about helping people understand and use data effectively, creating positive experiences that build confidence, trust and engagement and helping embed a culture where data is valued, understood and used to support Homes England's objectives.

Who are we? 

Homes England: The Housing and Regeneration Agency

We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people’s lives. As the government’s housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.

How? We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.

Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come.

What we offer... 

As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to 50/50 hybrid working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what matters to you. 

Membership of the Homes and Communities Agency Pension Scheme, which is a contributory defined benefit scheme with the amount you receive on retirement based on your salary and years worked at the Agency.

Internal applicants: please note that if you are successful, the salary you are offered will be in accordance with our pay policy. You can find details on the HR Hub SharePoint site.

If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names. 

Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future. 

If you are a member of a professional body, we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you’ll be good to go. 

Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We work to a 50/50 office/ home based model. Moving back into our office environments has enabled us to utilise our space and time together in the most collaborative way. 

We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications. 

We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme. 

If your application is shortlisted to interview we will require you to provide proof of your right to work in the UK at this stage.